Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution: Full Schedule

08:00 CST

Agroecosystems

8:00 - Batallas R and Evenden ML. 'Semiochemical feeding attractants as a potential tool to monitor cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) diversity in agricultural ecosystems'

8:15 - Frei B, Bennett EM, and Kerr JT. 'Conserving biodiversity in Canada's agro-ecosystems: are we forest-focused and forgetting farmland?'

8:30 - Frier SD, Somers CM, and Sheffield CS. 'Bumble bees do it better: the importance of native bees to the pollination of Haskap crops.'

8:45 - Galpern P, Kerr JT, and Pindar A. 'Neonics and bumble bees: evidence from a continental data set'

9:00 - Galuschik NE and Baulch HM. 'Constructed agricultural dams: The good, the bad, the unexpected'

9:15 - Wijesinghe MAK, Germida JJ, and Walley FL. 'Plant- associated Bacterial Communities vary with Host Crop, Habitat, and Soil Characteristics but not with AM Inoculation'

9:30 - Stanton RL, Clark RG, and Morrissey CA. 'Agricultural landscape composition influences tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging strategy, adult body condition, and return rates'

9:45 - Levesque D, Lamb EG and Henderson D. 'The use of riparian health assessments to evaluate cumulative anthropogenic effects to wetland habitats in the prairie pothole region of Saskatchewan'

Moderators

Rebecca Stanton

Friday May 22, 2015 08:00 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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10:30 CST

Evolutionary Ecology: Aquatic Organisms

10:30 - Jefferson DM, Hobson KA, Demuth BS, Ferrari MCO, and Chivers DP. 'Frugal cannibals: the conditional benefits of cannibalism for larval wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus)'

10:45 - Robinson BW and Black K. 'Adaptive plasticity in the self-amputation (autotomy) of lamellae by larval damselflies under variable risk of predation'

11:00 - Astudillo-Clavijo V, Arbour JH, and López-Fernández H. 'Adaptive diversification of locomotor morphology in Neotropical cichlids'

11:15 - McCauley SJ, Hammond JI, and Mabry KE. 'Environmental warming during development affects phenology and morphology in an aquatic insect (Odonata)'

11:30 - Van Wyngaarden M, Snelgrove PVR, DiBacco C, Hamilton LC, Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N, and Bradbury IR. 'Population connectivity and environmental drivers of adaptation in the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus'

11:45 - Henriques-Silva R, Pinel-Alloul B, and Peres-Neto PR. 'Reproductive strategies and their effect on macroecological patterns: the trade-off between dispersal and local adaptation in zooplankton communities'

Moderators

Mallory Van Wyngaarden

Friday May 22, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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14:30 CST

Evolutionary Ecology: Plants

2:30 - Bontrager MG and Angert A. 'Effects of range-wide variation in climate and isolation on mating-system and fitness of Clarkia pulchella'

2:45 - Campbell LG. 'Contemporary evolution and the dynamics of persistence in crop-wild hybrids with heritable variation for two weedy life histories'

3:00 - Moyers BT and Rieseberg L. 'The landscape of divergence in silverleaf sunflowers'

3:15 - Pieper SJ, Freeland JF, and Dorken ME. 'Hybridization in cattails (Typha spp.): its prevalence and effects on genetic diversity in wetlands across northeastern North America'

3:30 - Tovar L and Kembel SW. 'Drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of tropical forest phyllosphere microbial communities'

3:45 - Whitton J, Grimm J, and Hersh E. 'Attack of the clones: the role of pollen from ‘asexual’ donors in the presence of sexual recipients'

Moderators

Jeannette Whitton

Friday May 22, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

Oral Presentations

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08:30 CST

Conservation Biology: Animals I

8:30 - Awad Dosen J, Raboy BE, and Fortin MJ. 'Restoration Strategies to Improve Animal Movement in the Atlantic Forest'

8:45 - Dickie MM, Serrouya R, and Boutin S. 'The effect of anthropogenic linear features on wolf selection, movement and hunting'

9:00 - Laforge MP, Clark D, and Brook R. 'Non-invasive monitoring of the temporal aspects of polar bear activity during seasonal ice-free periods'

9:15 - Schulte-Hostedde AI, Lyons J, Edwards DB, and Mastromonaco G. 'Urban chipmunks are fat and less stressed than chipmunks from natural habitats'

9:30 - Stewart FEC, Heim NA, Clevenger AP, Paczkowski J, Volpe JP, and Fisher JT. 'The role of behaviour in wolverine range contraction; implications for species declines and management'

9:45 - St-Hilaire E, Réale D, and Garant D. 'Determinants and fitness consequences of docility in wild Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus)'

Moderators

Frances Stewart

Saturday May 23, 2015 08:30 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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10:30 CST

Advances in synthesis research

10:30 - Steinaker D and Leavitt P. 'New meaning in old data: facilitators of synthesis research in ecology and evolution'

10:45 - Cottenie K, Linquist S, Gregory TR, Elliott TA, Saylor B, Trombley C, and Kremer SC. 'Yes! There are stable generalisations ('laws') in ecology'

11:00 - Fox J, Vasseur D, Gonzalez A, Adrian R, Beisner B, Helmus M, Johnson C, Kratina P, Kremer C, de Mazancourt C, Miller E, Nelson W, Paterson M, Rusak J, Shurin J, and Steiner C. 'Synchrony, not compensatory dynamics, is the rule among zooplankton competitors at all temporal scales'

11:15 - Waldron A, Miller DC, Redding D, Mooers A, Kuhn TS, Nibbelink N, Roberts JT, Tobias JA, and Gittleman JL. 'Predicting the quantitative impacts of conservation investment and human pressure on global biodiversity'

11:30 - Thompson PL, Pedersen EJ, Gonzalez A, Guichard F, Fortin MJ, Pepin P, Ball A, Gouhier TC, Link H, Moritz C, Nenzen H, Stanley R, and Taranu Z. 'Anatomy of the collapse and onset of recovery in the North Atlantic groundfish community'

11:45 - Wissel B. 'Importance of climate and land-use as regulators of food-web structure in prairie lakes'

Moderators

Jeremy Fox

Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Bjoern Wissel

Saturday May 23, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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13:00 CST

Biogeography II

1:00 - Hajibabaei, M. 'Large-scale biodiversity monitoring through DNA analysis of environmental samples: a case study from Wood Buffalo National Park'
1:15 - Maire V, Wright IJ, Prentice IC, Batejes NH, Bhaskar R, van Bodegom PM, Cornwell WK, Ellsworth D, Niinemets Ü, Ordonez A, Reich PB, and Santiago LS. 'Joint impact of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic strategies at the global scale'
1:30 - Poisot T, Albouy C, Cazelles K, Cirtwill A, Baiser B, Woods SA, Araujo MA, Stouffer D, Fortin MJ and Grave D. 'Community ecology at the continental scale'
1:45 - Otter KA and Ramsay SM. 'Solving the question of migration in the white-throated sparrows of British Columbia using geolocators1q'

Moderators

Timothée Poisot

Saturday May 23, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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14:30 CST

NSERC Evolution and Ecology Evaluation Group Presentation on Discovery Grant Results

A presentation from the NSERC Program Officer for the Evolution and Ecology Evaluation Group for Discovery Grants. Each year, the CSEE executive requests that we present DG results and discuss “How to Apply”.

Speakers

David Coltman

Brenda MacMurray

Jeannette Whitton

Saturday May 23, 2015 14:30 - 16:30 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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08:30 CST

Northern Plant Ecology

8:30 - Lee C and Whitton J. Patterns of Niche Evolution and Speciation in Townsendia
8:45 - Mamet SD, Singh KK, Chun KP, Brown CD, Bernard J, and Johnstone JF. A sensitive slope at treeline: Do substrate and environmental characteristics determine tree sensitivity to climate?
9:00 - Hardy S and Siciliano S. Survival of the Salix: Fertility of Frost Boils in a Polar Desert
9:15 - Jean M, Melvin AM, Mack MC, and Johnstone JF. 'Room to breathe: Impacts of environment and leaf litter on moss growth and N-fixation
9:30 - Kambo D and Danby R. Seed availability and substrate influence on germination rates of white spruce in a boreal-tundra ecotone
9:45 - Pounden E and Greene DF. Timing of bud differentiation in Pinaceae species

Moderators

Steven Mamet

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan

I focus my research on range limits of tree species at northern tree lines, and how climate and environmental change shape tree line dynamics. I thoroughly enjoy the outdoors and wearing plaid—boreal fieldwork allows me to indulge both my passions.

Speakers

Sarah Hardy

Melanie Jean

Dasvinder Kambo

Chris Lee

Edith Pounden

Sunday May 24, 2015 08:30 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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10:30 CST

Ecophysiology

10:30 - Dalziel AC, Laporte M, Guderley H, and Bernatchez L. Evolution of energy metabolism among Lake Whitefish ecotypes
10:45 - Demuth BS, Ferrari MCO, and Chivers DP. The context of stress influences fear conditioning and anti-predator strategy in wood frog tadpoles (Lithobates sylvaticus)
11:00 - Jain-Schlaepfer SMR, Blouin-Demers G, Cooke SJ, and Bulte G. Effect of basking disturbances by motorboats on the energy budget of northern map turtles
11:15 - Johns D, Marchant TA, Fairhurst GD, Hambly C, and Clark RG. Avian Integrated Biomarkers: Understanding relationships between feather corticosterone and workload

Moderators

Anne Dalziel

Speakers

Brandon Demuth

Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer

David Johns

Sunday May 24, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 130 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

Oral Presentations

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